Re: Gnome totally broke
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:39:23PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Woo hoo! Testing is once again thoroughly hosed.
>
> "thoroughly hosed" ? Nice to see were not running short on the hyperbole.
>
> Do you have anything specific to report that hasn't already been reported?
> Or anything useful to say at all?
Some, but not all gnome packages were migrated into testing. The ones
not migrated were not considered release candidates at all.
Some of the packages migrated into testing depend on the non-migrated
packages. Those packages cannot be installed: that is, the dependency
graph of the packages in testing cannot be satisfied. This is *never*
appropriate; the dependency graph should always be able to be
satisfied.
I complained about this issue the last time. Merely migrating
individual packages will not work, because package dependencies will
not be satisfiable if this is done. Whenever a package A is not
migrated from unstable into testing, all the packages which depend on
that version must also not be migrated.
The testing archive does not seem to be maintained according to any
coherent global methodology. There is attention to migrating
particular packages into testing, but not to the overall structure of
the archive. Or, if there is attention, it's not actually preventing
quite serious problems.
Thomas
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